The 24th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony introduced ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners - Each has done something that makes people laugh then think.

Winners travelled to the ceremony, at their own expense, from around the world to receive their prize from a group of genuine, genuinely bemused Nobel Laureates, in Harvard's historic and largest theater. 1100 improbable persons filled the theatre, and the whole affair was broadcast live.

Two days after the ceremony, the third annual gala event at a theater in Leiden, The Netherlands featured live performances — including the presence of one of the new, 2014 Ig Nobel Prize winners — and a big-screen projection of the recorded Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.)

Tickets

Tickets for next year's Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will go on sale in early July 2015. They will be available exclusively from the Harvard Box Office, online and at Holyoke Center. Stay informed about upcoming Ig Nobel events by joining our private E-mail list. Please enter your E-mail address here:

Official Delegations

Groups of five (5) or more persons attending the Ig Nobel prize ceremony can be officially recognized during the ceremony as Official Delegations. If you would like your group regonized in this way at a future Ig Nobel prize ceremony, first obtain tickets, then register with Louise Sacco, Official Overseer of the Delegations (phone: 781-690-6621, email: LouiseSacco AT gmail.com). The deadline for registering as a delegation is a week before the ceremony.

Downloadable Poster & Program

Download your very own PDF copies of the 2014 Ceremony's Spiffy Poster and IgBill (program), identical to the ones we print for the ceremony. The poster in particular is a great way to increase Ig Nobel and universal awareness among friends, family, colleagues, neighbors, and complete strangers.

Supporters

We announce our biggest supporters on stage during the internationally broadcast prize ceremony. All supporters are thanked here on the website and/or in the IgBill (program). Past supporters include corporations, laboratories, and local business. Contact us to discuss becoming a supporter of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.

FIGS (Friends of the Ig) — Generous supporters of the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, who are helping the world laugh then think:

Two Moments of Science, by performing chemists Daniel Rosenberg and Joost Bonsen

The 24/7 LECTURES, in which several of the world's top thinkers each explains her or his subject twice:FIRST : a complete technical description in TWENTY-FOUR (24) SECONDS**AND THEN: a clear summary that anyone can understand, in SEVEN (7) WORDS

WHAT TO WEAR: We suggest you wear clothing. Clothing that is, like you, colorful. People like yourself (or in some cases, very unlike yourself) in distant places, watching the broadcast and seeing occasional glimpses of the Sanders Theatre audience, will thrill to the panoply of colors, styles, and improbable accoutrements. This is the night to unearth your old wedding gown, uniform, suit of armor, labcoat or longjohns.

WHAT TO BRING: Paper, paper, paper. Paper to make into paper airplanes. Additional paper to give to those around you who may have forgotten to bring their own paper, and who as a consequence of their own neglect are forlornly wishing they could join in the thrill and intellectual romance of making and throwing paper airplanes. SAFETY FIRST, please! Paper airplanes should only be thrown at the safety-equipment-laden individual onstage who is the Designated Paper Airplane Target. Paper airplanes may only be made of paper.

NOTE: There will be two (2) designated Paper Airplane Deluge periods, one at the very start of the ceremony, the other at the ceremony's midpoint.